No. 8 · November 2007

Kick off in Vienna

A two-day meeting in Vienna for CORE Pilot Projects


Continuation of the cooperation

Network in CORE Organic


Between credibility and national preferences

A CORE Organic report discuss scientific evaluation


Facilities and training

A new report discuss possibilities for imrpoved use of research facilities and topics


Around Europe

An overview of current topics


CORE Organic research

Eight trans-national research projects have recently been launched


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Kick off meeting in Vienna for CORE Pilot Projects

A two-day meeting in Vienna marked both the launch of eight trans-national research projects funded by the CORE ORGANIC partners and the finalisation of the ERA-NET CORE Organic


On 13 September 2007 a Kick-off meeting was held to mark the launch of the eight trans-national research projects funded by the CORE ORGANIC partners. In total 74 persons from 17 different European countries participated in this Kick-off meeting (see programme and participant list). The majority of the participants came from the CORE ORGANIC partners and the CORE Pilot Projects.

The meeting also served as platform for discussing practical experiences (“lessons learned”) from overcoming barriers in trans-national research cooperation with members of the European Commission (DG Research and DG Agriculture), coordinators and participants of other ERA-NETs (e.g. BIODIVERSA, CRUE, ERA-ARD, ERASysBIO, EuroTransBio and SEE-ERA-NET), representatives from new member states (EE, HU, PL, SK), other interested stakeholders from the organic food and farming community (agricultural scientists, funding bodies, public authorities and food retailer organisations) and participants of the CORE Organic pilot projects.

See presentations from the Vienna kick-off meeting